|summary=We first met Pippa Peppercorn and the pooch-pampering parlour in [[The Poodle Problem by Anna Wilson|The Poodle Problem]] and then in [[The Dotty Dalmatian by Anna Wilson|The Dotty Dalmatian]]. Pippa is a whole six months (and a little bit) older now but she still bounces off the page like a rubber ball with red pigtails. I did worry about her just a little bit as she didn't seem to have any friends of her own age. The elderly Mrs Fudge, the ladies who have their hair done at the salon and Raphael the postman are really no substitute for someone of your own age with whom you can have fun and giggles. And pass notes to each other in school - which is an essential part of growing up.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447200756</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bobbie Pyron
|title=The Dogs of Winter
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Little Mishka finds his cosy world turned upside down after the death of his beloved Babushka Ina. Unable to cope, his desperate mother finds solace in the arms of an abusive, alcoholic boyfriend and things go from bad to worse. When his mother mysteriously disappears, five year old Mishka flees to the heart of the city, where he joins up with a gang of street children, begging and stealing to survive.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395217</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jean Ure
|title=Secret Meeting
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Megan loves to read and she especially loves to read books by her very favourite author, Harriet Chance. Over the years she has collected all of Harriet’s books and as her birthday approaches Megan wonders if she will be able to buy a copy of Harriet’s latest novel with her birthday book tokens. Megan’s best friend, Annie, is determined that Megan should have a birthday she will never forget so when she meets Harriet’s daughter in an on-line chat room she decides to arrange the best birthday present ever for her friend. Megan is stunned when Annie reveals that Harriet has agreed to meet Megan and have a special birthday tea with her as part of her birthday celebrations. The two friends plot the secret meeting with care and feel sure that nothing can go wrong but when they finally meet the celebrated author Megan has an uneasy feeling that all is not as it seems. Should she have listened to her mother’s warnings about the dangers of meeting people you chat to on the Internet?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007428030</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Morpurgo
|title=Cockadoodle-Doo, Mr Sultana!
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There was once a very rich and very greedy and very fat sultan who kept his people in poverty and everything else for himself. One day when he was out riding (and being very mean to his horse) he lost a diamond button. His people were made to search for it on their hands and knees, but it was found by a little red rooster, who was very cheeky and who forced the sultan into a merry chase and finally a humiliating defeat. It's the stuff of traditional fairy tales given some delightful twists by a master storyteller and hilariously illustrated by Shoo Rayner.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007489986</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Susie Day
|title=Pea's Book of Big Dreams
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=For as long as she can remember, Pea has wanted to be a writer like her mother, the famous Marina Cove. But when she loses confidence in her writing ability, she decides it's time to look for a new career to aspire to. What should she be? An artist, a footballer, a pet therapist, or something else? One thing's for sure... there'll be lots of laughs, love, and even a little lunacy as she finds out. (Especially when little sister Tinkerbell, in her most Stinkerbellish of moods, gets involved!)
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849415234</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Townsend
|title=Never Odd Or Even
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Elliot is twelve. He's obsessed with numbers and letters, especially palindromes. He loves to spend his spare time playing about with words or numbers, when he can avoid school bully Victor Criddle, his arch-enemy. But when 'the biggest mystery that struck our school in the history of the world' has to be solved, Elliot's forced to use all of his brain power.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178127102X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ali Sparkes
|title=Unleashed 2: Mind Over Matter
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=To recap; this is the second in a series of five stand-alone books, where [[:Category:Ali Sparkes|Ali Sparkes]] drags all the minor characters from her first, Shapeshifter, set of five books out into the daylight. They've all got to be introduced with the intention to make us aware how rare it is that they see the light of day – as Children of Limitless Ability they're normally stuck in a school for the superpowered. But here are Gideon and Luke, the boys who can move things with thoughts alone, on holiday. For their own adventure Sparkes has put them together with prehistoric animals, a girl with a weirdly old-fashioned, almost Dickensian problem, and a dog called Fish. Oh, and some very nasty men with guns…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756079</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Christopher Edge
|title=Shadows of the Silver Screen
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Kids these days have it pretty good. Not that my generation weren’t lucky – after all, we had first access to [[:Category:J K Rowling|J K Rowling]] – but in 2013 there seems to be a greater choice of good books being published, for a wider range of abilities and interests, than my friends and I ever had access to.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857630520</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Catherynne M Valente
|title=The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=September has had various wonderful adventures in Fairyland already, and because she ate Fairy food she knows she will return. But a year has gone by without a word from her friends, and in the meantime she has become a teenager. This changes her, for it is the time when human children grow a heart, and when at last the summons comes, she finds her adventures are far more complex than they were before.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780338449</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Rosen and Tony Ross
|title=Fluff the Farting Fish
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Elvie wanted a puppy but she was still rather surprised when her mother agreed. Unfortunately what her mother brought home wasn’t a puppy but a goldfish. Now it wasn’t just a pet to cuddle and play with that Elvie had been after - she’d wanted to train the dog. Being a resourceful young lady she decided to train the goldfish instead. ''Sit'' was always going to be rather more than a challenge, but Elvie discovered that much could be achieved with Fluff’s bubbles. Go on - you know exactly what I mean! Soon Fluff was doing mental arithmetic and finally singing. Before long he was in demand at pop concerts and for television appearances.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395276</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Louis Nowra
|title=Into That Forest
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Almost every child dreams about freedom. The idea of being able to make your own decisions about how you live your life is, as anyone who has ever been told to eat up your greens and go to bed will know, a deeply seductive one. Many adults, of course, have the opposite fear: that children are really little monsters dressed up in human clothes, ready to break away and go wild at the slightest provocation. It’s not hard to see, therefore, why both adults and children are so fascinated by the idea of children alone in the wild. From ''Lord of the Flies'' to [[Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak|Where the Wild Things Are]], there’s a pervasive dream in children’s fiction – a dream that’s sometimes closer to a nightmare – about the child gone feral.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405266430</amazonuk>
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